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Trap: Do You Have What It Takes to Uncover the Truth?

Main Street Theater

Trap: Do You Have What It Takes to Uncover the Truth?

A Main Street Theater Rehearsal & Performance Student Production

MST steps into the mystery of Trap, a high-stakes thriller where a single, inexplicable event leaves a whole audience unconscious—except for one person. We are looking for actors to bring this gripping, documentary-style story to life. Through interviews with witnesses, investigators, and survivors, we will piece together a puzzle that is as unnerving as it is exhilarating. But be warned: as the story unfolds, you’ll realize this chilling mystery isn’t just a thing of the past—it might still be happening right under our noses!Read more

Cartografía del amor roto

Teatro Loft

Cartografía del amor roto

Un homenaje al derecho a revelarse contra la dictadura del amor feliz

Cartografía del amor roto es un recorrido escénico de diez momentos donde el amor se presenta en su lado más frágil, absurdo y desgarrado. No es el amor idealizado, sino aquel que se rompe, se esconde, se deforma o se vuelve imposible. A través de monólogos, duetos, poemas y coreografías, el espectáculo revela cómo los amores pueden ser salvación o condena, ternura o violencia, vida o pérdida, siempre con un trasfondo de humor negro, poesía y verdad humana. El espectáculo también reivindica el derecho humano a expresar el dolor del amor, combatiendo la moda de ahogarnos en silencio porque públicamente se espera solo la expresión de la felicidad.Read more

Alice in Wonderland

Main Street Theater

Alice in Wonderland

A Main Street Theater Rehearsal & Performance Student Production

Alice has just tumbled into Wonderland, and she desperately needs your help to find her way back home! MST is looking for an amazing cast of characters to bring this magical, fast-paced adventure to life. Whether you want to pour tea with the wacky Mad Hatter, rush around with the always-late White Rabbit, or flash a mischievous grin as the Cheshire Cat, there is a perfect spot for you in this show. It’s a wildly fun, action-packed play that will keep audiences on the edge of their seats.Read more

Etchings

PCT Productions

Etchings

A staged reading of a new play by Christopher Grum

On the twenty-fifth anniversary of September 11, two strangers meet by chance at the National 9/11 Memorial. What begins as an uneasy conversation about family, grief, and memory gradually reveals the hidden burdens each has carried for decades. Etchings is an intimate two-person drama that explores how tragedy shapes us, how memory changes us, and whether our loved ones should be defined by the worst moments of their lives.Read more

Direct Hits III

Sketch Supercollider

Direct Hits III

A best-of celebration of home-grown Houston sketch comedy

Sketch Supercollider: Direct Hits III is a fast-paced celebration of home-grown Houston sketch comedy, bringing together some of the funniest and most memorable original work created across the community over the past year. Featuring a wide range of writers, directors, performers, and comedic voices, the show offers a lively snapshot of Houston sketch right now.Read more

Murder Murder Kill Kill Kill

The Catastrophic Theatre

Murder Murder Kill Kill Kill

World Premiere by Brian Jucha & the Catastrophic ensemble

Brian Jucha is not only Houston’s reigning champ of ensemble-based, experimental dance-theatre. If you’ve seen his work, you know he is also a master of high camp and that his performances are littered with found text and unlikely pop culture references, all in service of a disarmingly moving hall of mirrors. This year he’s taking on Paris’ Grand Guignol, the theatre of fear and horror, to ask the question: “Is there really a serial killer in Houston or are these people just seeing things? And also, what is up with all these bayous?” Directed and choreographed by Brian Jucha.Read more

Mr. & Mrs. Fitch

Dirt Dogs Theatre Co.

Mr. & Mrs. Fitch

Written by Douglas Carter Beane, Directed by Ron Jones, Regional Premiere

A scandal. A marriage. A truth too complicated for headlines.

What happens when certainty becomes impossible? In Douglas Carter Beane’s sparkling comedy Mr. & Mrs. Fitch, a prominent conservative columnist and his impeccably composed wife find their carefully curated world thrown into chaos by a scandal that defies easy explanation. As rumors swirl and assumptions unravel, the couple is forced to confront questions of identity, faith, marriage, and the limits of certainty itself.

Brilliantly witty, unexpectedly moving, and delightfully irreverent, Mr. & Mrs. Fitch skewers modern politics, media culture, and social conventions with Beane’s trademark intelligence and razor-sharp humor. Beneath its sophisticated comedy lies a thoughtful exploration of authenticity, acceptance, and the courage required to embrace life's complexities. Both provocative and deeply humane, this contemporary comedy invites audiences to laugh, reflect, and reconsider what they think they know.Read more

10 Out of 12

The Catastrophic Theatre

10 Out of 12

by Anne Washburn; Directed by Jason Nodler

10 out of 12 is an immersive, meta-theatrical, inside-the-scenes peek at those grueling 12-hour tech rehearsals, those studies in human behavior, which lead up to opening night. Audiences will be given earpieces to eavesdrop on coms and private conversations as theatre artists come and go from the seats around them. Tensions run high, there is an injury, a breakdown, a mutiny. Why would anyone sign up for this again and again? By the end of this surprisingly warm, surprisingly funny play-before-a-play by Anne Washburn (Mr. Burns, a Post-Electric Play), you just might find your answer. Directed by Jason Nodler.Read more

The Humans

Dirt Dogs Theatre Co.

The Humans

Written by Stephen Karam, Directed by Malinda L. Beckham

A Thanksgiving dinner served with equal parts love and dread.

Thanksgiving. One apartment. Three generations. Countless disappointments.

In Stephen Karam’s The Humans, a family gathers for a holiday dinner, bringing with them decades of love, obligation, secrets, and quiet heartbreak. As the evening wears on, familiar roles begin to fracture. Parents struggle to hold on to relevance, children wrestle with uncertain futures, and partners confront the distance between the lives they imagined and the lives they are living.

With blistering honesty and dark, unsettling humor, Karam exposes the invisible tensions that simmer beneath even the closest relationships. Every conversation becomes a negotiation of loyalty. Every act of love carries the weight of expectation. What begins as a family gathering slowly transforms into a riveting portrait of people desperate to connect, even as fear, regret, and disappointment threaten to pull them apart.

Raw, intimate, and quietly devastating, The Humans is a haunting examination of what remains when the stories families tell about themselves can no longer withstand the truth.Read more

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